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Re:Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session by slopinthebag on Friday April 17, 2026 @11:30PM (#47812900)
What about when there is a $100/month tool that makes your engineer 90% as productive as they were on the $1000/mo tool?

What if that tool is something you can run on prem, and over time make the investment back?

It's not so simple.

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Re:Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session by killingtime74 on Saturday April 18, 2026 @02:31AM (#47813622)
If your company is making $1 mil per employee per year, then 10% is 100k. Even at 500k employee or lesseer numbers it's almost always better to buy the $1000/month tool (break even is a measly $108k revenue per employee per year)
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Re:Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session by slopinthebag on Saturday April 18, 2026 @05:00PM (#47819487)
It's not just about cost, it's about having the control, stability, and autonomy of on-prem. Plus you can probably repurpose that compute when employees are out of the office.

Anyways, I'm just saying it's not so simple ;)

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